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GT5 On PS3 - not sure what route to take...
Hi peeps, My husband has been wanting GT5 for the last 4 years and this year seems to be the year of its arrival! Now I am not sure what to do as it is for his Xmas present. Do I pre-order on one of the games sites like Play or Amazon? Do I wait and hope my brother that works for Sainsburys can get it for me on the day of…
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Access database
I have an access database that I need to open up on an apple mac in Open office, but when I try and open it up, I just get a load of strange charatcters. I don't have any problems in opening up word documents. Can anyone advise please?
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Imaging hard drive with Windows Complete PC Backup - alternative?
Hey all Had an issue with my laptop recently and ended up restoring from a recovery disk. Unfortunately this was the image which came with the laptop which meant reinstalling Vista service packs and all my programs. I want to image my hard drive regularly so I don't have to go through this pain again. I'm running Vista…
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son broken his new computer!
Hi My son purchased a PC on ebay which he connected up to the monitor and was working fine. He then decided to change the screen resolution to the highest that it would go to, and unfortunately we cannot get to the screen to change it back!! i have googled the problem and it suggest starting the PC in safe mode, but we…
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re-avast5
Hi, I changed from AVG to Avast5 last night, reluctantly, scanned twice and no infections found. However, malware bytes found Trojan Dropper this morning, so either, it got on during change over, os has Avast let it through?Is it a virus, and therefore should have been detected by Avast, or Malware, which Avast doesn,t…
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live chat query
hi all when on websites such as bt , o2 , vodafone etc.. somtimes a box will come up asking if you want to have live chat with a cs rep. what determines if a live chat box pops upon your screen or not ? as i have bin sta on the bt website waiting for about 10 mins and no luck. i got one pop up straight away on bt site the…
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Clearing logins and passwords question
Hi All I share a laptop with others and I need to clear recent history, cookies, passwords etc. I use firefox as my browser. So I go into: Tools> Clear recent history>and then I tick all the boxes and hit the "Clear now" button. Now the next time I use the laptop, as expected, I have to re-enter all my login details to…
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Ipod Shuffle Help
Bought the latest ipod Shuffle as a christmas present and now need to know the following Can normal headphones be bought/used with the ipod shuffle Cant wear in the ear types as keep falling out so want some normal over the ear headphones to use with it question is can you buy them and will they work ?
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Please help - Vista won't load my profile
Hi Looking for some help please loaded up my dell laptop this morning and entered my password, but it seems something has gone wrong as it has not loaded my user info and I cant see any of my files or shortcuts. Just got the original dell taskbar and wallpaper and one shortcut. Any help would be great. Thanks
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Whats best option please
As we spend a large amount of our time at varies hospitals around the country we thought we would buy our 5 year old something to play dvd's on We were originally looking at something along the lines of a portable dvd player like the iluv1155....but are now think could we pick up a netbook for around the same sort of money…
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How do I put a song on my phone
and then send it to someone on their phone?
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Looking for something to watch videos on the move. What to get?
I'm looking for a mobile video player so I can watch videos on the train/plane/bus. It just needs to play videos, not worried about anything else. Archos ones seem to be way over the top now. I don't needs GPS, Internet, etc - I have a phone which does that. All my requirements are the battery life has to be good, video…
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Facebook
I joined facebook recently and have a question. I have a few friends that when they post their status I don't see them anymore on my home page, unless they post directly on my wall. I did remove a post once as they post every five minutes results of games they play, has this affected all future status posts? I've checked…
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What to do with unwanted cables/leads - ?
We recently replaced all the computers where I work and I have been left with a big box of cables & leads that we can't use and don't want (no storage space!). I'm just wondering what is the best thing to do with these? I'm assuming they're not worth anything, but don't really want to just bin them all. We have about 50…
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Improve .. or replace ... Sony Laptop
Hello would appreciate some help. I am self employed and 2 functioning computers are essential for me as I travel around a lot. After a disaster when both failed in 2007, I bought:* A little notebook for travel/daily work/surfing * A large Sony laptop. This sits like Queen Victoria safely at home. I dont use the keyboard…
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Help XP won't activate on a netbook
I lost my wireless connection after installing a O2 usb dongle. Trying to re-install them, I used the Medion Recovery Disk, which said it would update XP (SP3). Correct Disk, itis a Medion Akoya. Did the necessary, and now when it books it says it needs Microsoft to activate it, when I click Yes it just goes to my…
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Digital Vs SLR?
Seeing as this has probably been covered 100's of times, apologies in advance for posting! My wife has suggested we buy a level entry SLR camera but I'm not 100% keen. I'd rather buy a new digital camera for slightly less money. She claims that even if both camera's have 12 megapixel, the quality of the SLR pics will be…
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xbox gold renewal?
My son's membership is up for renewal soon, is it possible to renew it through the xbox or do I have to purchase it seperately again? TIA.
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Hard drive tv recorders
I've just purchased a Hitachi Digital Recorder with twin tuners, is there a way of transferring programmes I have on my existing Pioneer tv recorder to it?
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quick lesson on Freeview/digital tv, please.
Daughter needs digital tv. Wants a Freeview recorder set top box. She has a 7 year old Sony but it does take scart leads. Is it just a matter of plugging a scart lead in and then tuning the box in? Our TVs all have Freeview built in so I have never come across this problem before. And then of course I will be paying for…
